I. Jefferson's Plans for Education and the role of Ad Quod Damnum
II. Jefferson Papers, Library of Congress, Jefferson to Congress, March 1808
III. The Charter of Dartmouth, use of ad quod damnum
IV. The use of Ad Quod Damnum to obtain a mill site on the Potomac:
See: Cook, Eleanor M. V. "Georgetown: Jewel of Montgomery County, part 1," The Montgomery County Story, 41, no.4 (November 1998), pp. 49-60, especially pp. 56-57 concerning the petition of Josiah Beall for ten acres on each side of Deep Branch for a mill site. For the original petition found among the recorded Chancery Court records see: